Friday, December 21, 2007

Jury and BBQ party

After fairly eventful presentations on London involving London being hit by, or on the brink of one global disaster or the other of scales to inspire some of the very best Hollywood movies, we had a barbecue party with lots of food, drinks and dance.

Interestingly we realised that the discipline of architecture and urban design here has been systematically disconnected from society and strongly wants to restrict itself to form making. It is something about these big global educational institutions, where for knowledge to become more knowledgeable, demands so much of resources that it gets tied up within these strings of funding and financing. And this step in many of our lives is the first step towards getting integrated within this system, where we too shall start exclaiming ‘everything is not so black and white!’.......